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The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program is the largest private scholarship program ever implemented for African youth. The Program seeks to develop a cohort of next-generation leaders, who will support social transformation and economic growth. This case study reviews the Program’s approach, early results, and learning. It demonstrates how a donor and its partners are engaging in real-time with issues discussed in this book, for instance, the role of scholarships for international education in the context of an Africa-focused initiative. It analyzes the delivery of recruitment and leadership training in the context of the program’s overarching theory of change. At the “meta-level”, the case explores the monitoring, evaluation, and learning framework and how results are woven back into the Program’s operations.
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Current partners include North American universities: Arizona State University, Duke University, McGill University, Michigan State University, Queen’s University, Stanford University, the University of British Colombia, the University of California (Berkeley), the University of Toronto, and Wellesley College; European universities: Sciences Po and the University of Edinburgh; African universities: the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, African Leadership Academy, Ashesi University, Carnegie Mellon University (Rwanda), Gondar University, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Makerere University, the University of Abomey-Calavi, the University of Cape Town, and the University of Pretoria; Other universities: American University of Beirut, EARTH University; and NGO partners: Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, Campaign for Female Education, Equity Group Foundation, and Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE).
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Burciul, B., Kerr, K. (2018). Case Study: Education in Support of Social Transformation—The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program. In: Dassin, J., Marsh, R., Mawer, M. (eds) International Scholarships in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62734-2_16
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